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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

, Application fled February 15, 1915. Serial No. 8,167.

To all whom it may concern:

7 Be it known that I, CARL G. MILLER, c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at Mount Clemens, county of Macomb, State of Michi- 'gan, have invented a certain new and useful Im rovement in Strainers, and declare the fo owing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the .same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being drawings, which art of this speci cation.

This invention relates to strainers for fuel lines leading to internal combustion engines of the hydrocarbon type.

It consists of a simple arrangement of members that may be easily disassembled and which are so constructed that ample resistance is afforded for any pressure that may be brought upon the mesh or screen that does the straining.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a lon 'tudinal section. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the left hand part shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the right hand part shown in Fig. 2.

The fragmentary ends of the pipe lengths that form the fuel line clearly appear in the drawings. Attached to these by pipe straining device. They comprise a pair of hollow or tubular spuds, one a shouldered spud a, the other an externally threaded spud 12. A union nut c is used to draw them together. One of the tubular spuds, in this case the spud b, is slightly recessed at its end to seat the mesh, or strainer proper, (Z. Into the other tubular spud a short sleeve 6 is tightly driven. The tubular spud 11 has an interior enlargement at its end as well as an exterior enlargement. Consequently when the sleeve eis driven in place this leaves an annular chamber 7. The

outside of the sleeve communicates with the inside of the sleeve by means of the perforations g in the sleeve. The end of the sleeve projects outwardly as far as the end of the spud a and consequently acts as a support for the strainer. It will also be noticed that the tubular spud b enlarges both internally and externallg at the end which'meets the opposite spu a. Consequently with this with the chamber 7 of the enlargement and the straining chamber is opposite spud,

somewhat larger than the ordinary bore of the fuel line. The purpose of this is to have the flow of the fuel practically uninterrupted by the straining operation. Of course the fuel will not flow through the wire mesh as rapidl; as it will flow through an uninterrupte space, and especially is this true when dirt or the strainings accumulate against the mesh. However, in providing this enlarged area for the straining mesh,

the pressure on the mesh is correspondlngly increased, and in pressure roducing means accumulates behind the e1 line, the strainer would be considerably flexed if not completely drawn out from its'seat, as it is merely wire mesh made of wire of very small gage; It is to obviate this difiiculty that the perforated sleeve {1 is employed as this engages with the mesh d and forms a ring-like support therefor,

case a large head or other not only providing additional resistance to any pressure but practically preventing the wire mesh from being drawn from its seat.

It will be seen that when it is desired to clean the strainer and remove any of the strainings, it may be very easily done by screwing ofi the union nut c and removing the mesh (1. Y

What I claim is: Y

1. A strainer for pipe lines, having in combination, an externally threaded tubular spud, a shouldered tubular spud, the interiors of the two s uds enlarged at their meeting ends, a per orated sleeve secured in the spud farther removed from the source of flow, said sleeve forming on its outside in said tubular spud an annular chamber, a straining fabric between the two tubular spuds and supported by the end of said sleeve, and a union nut for bringing the two tubular spuds together.

2. A strainer for pipe lines, having in combination, a pair of tubular spuds, one of which is threaded and the other shouldered, a wire mesh seated in the recess on the end of one of the spuds, each of the spuds interiorly enlarging at the meeting ends, a perforated sleeve secured in the enlargement of one of the tubular spuds and forming an annular chamber thereabout, the said perfoilrtestimony whereof, I sign this specifirated sleeve serving also to support the wire cation in the presence of two witnesses. mesh against the pressure generated from I CARL G. MILLER.

the flow of liquid against the ogposite side Witnesses: 5 of the screen, and a union nut or drawing STUART'C. BARNES,

the two tubular spuds together. v i Vnmmn C. Srm'rr. 

